NHS doctor rebellion over patient sexual orientation Q&A
NHS England chiefs face a rebellion from doctors and nurses over new guidelines that say every patient over the age of 16 must be asked to declare their sexual orientation.
Healthcare professionals will refuse to quiz patients over whether or not they are gay despite proposals outlined by NHS England, the chairman of the College of Medicine has warned.
NHS England says that it needs to record patients sexual orientation to fulfill legal duties under the Equality Act and that people are not obliged to answer, according to The Daily Telegraph.
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A good practice guide for healthcare professionals produced by the LGBT Foundation – which has worked with NHS England to develop sexual orientation monitoring – to go with the new guidelines “seeks to reassure them that they will encounter overwhelming public support”, says The Times.
LBGT Foundation – go stuff yourselves any way you like but leave everyone else alone. If people want to tell their medical team they are Lesbian, Bi, Gay, Trans or Queer, nobody is stopping them. That’s equal rights. But don’t force YOUR stuff on other people.
It’s most offensive. Lesbian, Bi, Gay, Trans or Queer, your place is here with us – the ordinary folk, whose rights are not increasing, but dwindling. Not dwindling, but being trampled on. Get in line please and stop whining!
“Legal duties under the Equality Act.” my foot.
Your Foundation has no ‘public support’ from here.
But,
at the age of seventy three, I’m REALLY looking forward to being asked!
The Last Furlong 
Oct 17, 2017 at 04:36
“Have a Guess” might be a good answer, since so many of them don’t seem to know from day to day.
My only worry is that some of them might do something irreversible before they change their minds.
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Oct 17, 2017 at 09:29
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Oct 17, 2017 at 06:42
Knowing how well educated how many of today’s 16 year olds are, I imagine the following scene:
Dr.: “And your sexual orientation?”
16-year-old.: “Anglican…innit?”
(According to my librarian sister, you would be amazed how many not-so-young people answer the ethnicity question with “Dunno , C of E?”)
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Oct 17, 2017 at 09:30
Oh – how funny – but sad!
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Oct 17, 2017 at 06:48
Dr.: “And your sexual orientation?”
16-year-old MALE.: “uhm Norff-Norfff east like when I has a hard on, blud, innit?” (think about it).
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Oct 17, 2017 at 09:42
Do kids KNOW their sexual orientation at sixteen? Norff-Norfff east was a Hitchcock thriller movie in my day – oh no – I think it was Norff-Norfff West. But is sex, nowadays what you watch on your phone?
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Oct 17, 2017 at 09:59
What has sexual orientation got to do with requesting acne treatment?
Hope the ones asking are prepared for the flavour of responses they’ll surely get from us non-PC-ers!!! Depending on how they phrase the question it might look like a come-on and in that case I can see a lot of quacks in the dock facing charges of sexual harassment. They haven’t thought this through, have they?
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Oct 17, 2017 at 10:28
I am thinking up a delicious retort for a seventy three year old. Also – can we ask the doctor/medic THEIR orientation? I think we have a right to know. Don;t you?
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Oct 18, 2017 at 09:37
Actually, I think we DO have a right to know THEIR orientation. Ladies chose to go to lady docs when they have lady-related problems don’t they? It eliminates the risk of inappropriate fiddling in the nether regions and protects a male doc from allegations of impropriety and such like. Same applies to male patients and lady docs, generally speaking. However gay docs could get their jollies with unsuspecting same sex patients and where does that leave us?
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Oct 18, 2017 at 11:22
That’s a point.
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Oct 17, 2017 at 12:34
“What has sexual orientation got to do with requesting acne treatment?”
Actually that’s one of the times a GP might ask a girl about her sexual orientation/activity because -at least a few years ago it was still the case- the micro-pill was prescribed for female teenage acne .
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Oct 17, 2017 at 12:45
Yes. You are right. And for various other conditions too. The doctor should be intelligent enough to ask such questions himself – not through ‘decree’!
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Oct 17, 2017 at 15:13
Ah, but where will that lead? If the young lady is a lesbian then will she have to suffer her acne without the “benefits” of the micro pill? Just plain daft approach! What about boys with acne? 😀 Q-derm worked for most teenagers in my day! 🙂
The SO question is irrelevant unless the doc suspects a STD. Just another one for their statistics or to see if their brainwashing of the young is working to make them infertile and androgynous and unhappy – suicide rate amongst transgender kids is very high.
Possible answer to the Q is “How many guesses do I get?” or “Would you like a thick lip?” or for the ladies “Why d’you want to know, big boy 😉 ?” or “Are you making me an offer?” and so on…
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Oct 17, 2017 at 17:12
Yes – I’m still thinking…
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Oct 17, 2017 at 13:51
Next time I’m interrogated by the ladies at the post office as to what my parcel contains I must really have the L’esprit de l’escalier to say -loudly so all the 73 year olds behind me in the queue have palpitations: “SEX TOYS AND ANAL LUBE!”
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Oct 17, 2017 at 13:53
and your blog is still playing up, first it doesn’t let me post with my word press ID, then logs me out of my google ID and then when manage to log back in and post it misplaces the comment….last comment should have gone below your 73 year old one.
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Oct 17, 2017 at 14:52
Sorry!
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Oct 17, 2017 at 16:18
@DR I fear the most common reply from teens will be “HUH?”. The more educated might hazard a guess that ‘sexual orientation’ means they are into ‘chinks’ like…aiii.
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Oct 17, 2017 at 17:11
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Oct 18, 2017 at 09:39
Or chicken fried rice 🙂
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